Kitchen-cabinet



N0. 6|0,I02 Patented Aug. 30, I898 J. E. TATE.

KITCHEN CABINET.

(Application filed Ncv. 24, 1897.,

(No Model.)

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KITCHEN-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,102, dated August 30, 1898. Application filed November 24, 1897. Serial No. 659,712. (No model.)

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES EDWARDS TATE, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kitchen0abinets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvementin kitchen-cabinets, and more particularly to such as are provided with compartments for flour, meal, rice, sugar, coffee, or other cereals used in cooking.

My improved cabinet is provided with bins or compartments arranged close together and so condensed that only thin partitions are used to separate the materials, thus economizing space and saving labor. The bins are to be filledfrom the top and the material will be removed through" outlets at the bottom. The material is gradually forced to the rear at the bottoms of the bins by curved false bottoms and can be readily removed therefrom by means of scoops, sifters, or other devices. Ooffee is also placed in a bin which feeds it to a mill, where it is ground and discharged into a drawer.

The tops of the various bins or compartments are provided with a cover common to them all and with supplemental covers to facilitate the filling of the various bins without danger of the materials becoming mixed. The cabinet is provided at its bottom with a sliding bread-board, which is specially constructed to prevent the "escape of materal therefrom. The bread-board also cooperates with a cover to close the outlets of thebins, and within this cover a receptacle forspicecanisters is located,all as hereinafter specifically explained. 7

One object of my invention is to improve and simplify the construction in various respects of kitchen-cabinets of the class above outlined.

A further object is to provide a kitchencabinet with a bread -board'which shall be so constructed and arranged as to form a tray and prevent the escape of material therefrom;

A further object isto provide the cabinet with a sliding bread-board and to provide detached view of one of the lids.

means for preventing the bread from being pushed back while in use.

A further object is to provide a kitchencabinet with a sliding bread-board and means for scraping said board as it is moved back to its normal position. a A further object is to provide simple and efficient means for stiffening the upper end of the cabinet, for forming a stop or rest for the cover ofthe cabinet, and for supporting supplemental covers.

A further object is to produce a kitchencabinet which shall be simple and compact in construction and which shall be efiectual in all respects in the performance of its functions.

Withthese objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter "setforth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improve-d cabinet. ,Figs. 2, 3, and i are longitudinal sections showing the bread-board in section in three different positions with respect to the hinged scraper or cleaner, which latter is also shown in two positions.- Fig. 5 is a section through the bread-board, taken at right angles to the figures just described, Fig. 6 is a Fig.7 is a view in perspective of the upper portion of the cabinetwith the cover removed. Fig. 8 is a section through this upper portion and a portion of the cover, showing the latter in position thereon; and Fig. 9 is asection through the'bread-board, showing one of the rollers.

A represents the body portion of my improved cabinet, and it is divided into a series of bins or compartments a b c d for the reception of different materials-such as flour, meal, sugar, rice, &c.and each bin is made with a false bottom a (preferably curved) to direct the material toward the rear of the bottoms of the bins, so that it can be readily removed through openings f by means of scoops or other devices without danger of wasting the material. J

The lower edge of the front of the cabinet at the bottoms of the openings f is bent up to form a flange 1, which serves to prevent accidental escape of material through the outlet-openings, and said flange also performs other offices which will be hereinafter fully explained.

Grooved bars or angle-irons 2 are secured to the ends of the cabinet and made to project under the same, so as to raise the body of the cabinet slightly above the support on which it rests, and thus prevent the collection of moisture on the bottom thereof, which would tend to rust the same. The grooved bars project some distance beyond and in front of the cabinet and serve to prevent the same from tilting forwardly. The grooved bars fill the further office of supportingand guiding a bread-board B, adapted to be normally slid partially under the bottom of the cabinet and to be pulled outinto position for use, being at all times disposed immediately under the outlet-openings f of the bins, so that none of the material will be lost in removing it from the bins. The board Bis provided at its edges with flanges '3, (preferably formed by means of strips g, secured thereto,) which serve to stiffen the same and prevent it from warping and also serving to prevent the escape of material from said board to the grooved bars or guides, and thus said bars or guides will be kept clean and permit the board to slide freely at all times. Each side strip 9 is made with recesses g in its under face near the respective ends thereof for the reception of rollers g adapted to run 011 the grooved bars or angle-irons 2. The journals for the rollers g may be conveniently formed by the fastening devices 9 by which the strips 9 are secured to the bread-board. A cleaner or scraper 4 cooperates with the bread-board and its flanges while the board is being pressed inwardly. A wire or red 5 serves to hinge the cleaner or scraper 4 to the upper edge of flange 1, said cleaner depending so as to scrape material toward the front of the board when the latter is pushed back and also prevent any material from being carried under the cabinet. The scraper also performs another important functionviz., as a stop for the board when the same is in use. By pulling the board out beyond the scraper the latter will become disposed behind the end thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, and thus act as a stop to prevent the backward movement of the board when breadis being worked thereon, the flange 1 cooperating with the scraper for this purpose. By slightly elevating the scraper, as shown in Fig. 3, the board can be pushed back, and when back to its normal position the scraper will assume the relation thereto shown in Fig. 4. A cover 6 is hinged to the front of the cabinet, just above the outlet-openings f of the bin s, and cooperates with the board B to close said outlet-openings. The cover 6 is provided interiorly with a bracket 7, which serves to receive a series of spice-can is ters 8.

The cabinet is preferably provided with a coffee-mill 9 and a drawer 10 under the same,

the bin 72. serving to receive the unground coffee and deliver it to the mill.

The body portion of the cabinet is pressed outwardly near the top to form hollow flanges 11, which serve the double purpose of stiffening the structure and also as stops to receive the flanges of a cover 12, which closes the inlets of all the'bins, and said cover is preferably provided with a locking device of any desired construction. The upper end of the cabinet is further stiffened by means of strips 13, inserted in said hollow flanges 11. The strips 13 project inwardly from the inner wall of the cabinet at the upper ends of the bins and serve as supports for a series of supplemental covers for the bins. In Fig. 7 five bins are shown, and for the two central bins ahinged supplemental cover let is provided and adapted to close one or the other of said central bins, so that one of them can be filled without danger of spilling material into the other, said cover 14 being adapted to rest on two of said strips 13 and on the upper end of one of the partitions separating the bins. The lateral bins are adapted to be covered by means of a sliding or removable supplemental cover 15, so that when one or the other of the central bins is being filled there will be no danger of the said material becoming deposited into said lateral bins, the strips 13 serving, as above explained, to support said supplemental covers 15.

My improvements are simple and compact in construction and effectual in all respects in the performance of their functions.

Various slight changes might be made in the details of construction of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof or limiting its scope, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details herein set forth.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in a kitchen-cabinet, of a bread-board having a flange at its end and a pivotally-supported device depending over said bread-board and terminating in proximity to the face thereof, said depending device being free to swing in one direction and a stop adapted to prevent it from swinging in the other direction beyond a vertical position, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a kitchen-cabinet and a sliding bread-board, of a pivoted stop free to swing in one direction only and adapted to engage the cabinet, whereby to prevent rearward movement of the bread-board when the latter is in use, substantially as set forth.

3. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination with a body portion, of a sliding bread-board connected thereto, and a depending device connected with said cabinet in such manner as to form a scraper and a stop for said board against inward movement, substantially as set forth.

4:. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination with a body portion having bins with outlets at their lower ends, of an upturned flange at the bottom of said outlets, a sliding breadboard under said outlets, and a depending device hinged to the upper edge of said flange and serving as a scraper and as a stop for said bread-board, substantially as set forth.

5. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination with a body portion having bins with outlets at their lower ends, of a sliding bread-board under said outlets, flanges at the edges of said board, a depending device hinged to the body portion and cooperating with said board and flanges to form a scraper and a stop for the board, substantially as set forth.

6. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination with a body portion, of a cover therefor, a hollow flange projecting outward near the top of the body portion and serving as stops for the cover, an upturned flange adapted to be encompassed by the cover, and inwardlyprojecting stiifening-strips inserted in said hollow flanges, substantially as set forth.

7. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination with a body portion having bins therein with inlets at their upper ends, of a hollow flange near the top of said body portion, strips inserted in said hollow flanges and projecting inwardly from the same and covers for said bins adapted to rest 011 said strips, substantially as set forth.

8. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination with a body portion having a series of bins with inlets at their upper ends, of a cover for the top of the cabinet and common to all of said bins, hollow flanges near the upper end of said body portion and serving as stops for said cover, strips inserted in said hollow flanges and projecting inwardly beyond the same, and supplemental covers for the bins adapted to rest on said .strips, the central supplemental cover being hinged ,and serving alternately for the two central bins, substantially as set forth.

9. In a kitchen-cabinet, the combination with a body portion and bars or ways projecting therefrom, of a bread-board, strips secured to the edges of said bread-board and forming flanges therefor, said strips having recesses in their under faces, rollers located in said recesses and adapted to run on the bars or ways and fastening devices securing the strips to the board and serving as bearings for said rollers, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this- JAMES EDWVARDS TATE.

Witnesses:

W. H. HURT, GEO. W. HULL. 

